Hannah Arendt’s existential, republican concept of politics spurned Carl Schmitt’s idea that enmity constituted the essence of the political. Famously, she isolated the political sphere from social conflict, sovereign regimes, and the realm of military violence. While some critics are now interested in applying Arendt’s more abstract political ideas to international affairs, it has not been ack...

this paper tries to describe the way jaspers understands the term ‘existence’. according to jaspers ‘existence is ’ indefinable. if so, how then can it be expressed? not by concepts,but by what jaspers calls ‘signa’. the terms such as ‘existence’, ‘freedom’ and ‘selfhood’ are examples of such ‘signa’. however, ‘signa’ per se have no objectivity for consciousness, no independent meaning. from th...

Modern humans feel great influence under developing electronic culture that absorb the self within important spheres of life: communication, education, game, creation. This article considers the base existential problem of personhood under the influence of virtualization and human transforming technologies. The author proves that electronic status of human form new possibilities and risks in on...

This paper explores the essential features of recovery and the need for an existential approach in psychiatry. The biopsychosocial model often fails to sufficiently validate the existential suffering of patients. We review the major principles of recovery and the philosophical and psychiatric principles of existentialism. The ontological or intrinsic existential issues of death, isolation, free...